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Our Source of Help
By: Shelly Esser
Not long ago, I woke up with a heavy spirit. It felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders and it was up to me to fix everything. There’s so much in today’s craziness that can leave us feeling anxious, alone, afraid, and just plain like it would be a whole lot easier to pull the covers up over our heads and stay there! In that moment, I found myself looking for help from family, friends, Social Media─everywhere but God first. It’s like I had forgotten where my true and lasting help comes from.
As a teenager, I came to love Psalm 121 because my best friend's parents sang it at my high school graduation. However, I haven't always applied it to my life. In my wrestling, I was reminded that instead of “lifting up my eyes to the hills” as Ps.121:1 encourages me to do, and remembering where my help comes from, I was stuck in the lowlands gazing at my problems instead of gazing at God─the only lasting source of help for my burdens.
When we are hit with trouble, we tend to look down instead of up. That’s the wrong direction! The hills in Psalm 121 are a reminder that we’re to look up. But we’re to point our gaze even higher than the hills, we’re to look beyond them to the God who created them because God is higher than all creation─and He is greater than any problem we’re facing.
God, our heavenly Father, is just waiting for us to turn our eyes on Him. And as we make it a daily habit, He provides us with comfort, peace, hope, and empowerment for living in our day-to-day life and situations.
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